Maggie Walters is an Australian memoirist based in Woodlawn, New South Wales. She is best known for her debut book Split (2024), a memoir of living with Multiple Personality Disorder, now called Dissociative Identity Disorder. An early draft of the manuscript was longlisted for the Richell Prize, one of Australia’s notable literary awards for emerging writers.
Maggie Walters was born in the United States and completed a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management at Le Tourneau University. She moved to Australia in 1996 after meeting her husband online and settled in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. Walters has described her daily life there as one spent writing, raising her three children and enjoying coffee with friends.
Her professional career before writing included work in marketing and community relations. She returned to writing after many years, motivated by her enduring interest in storytelling. She joined writing groups and attended courses at the Byron Writers Festival and other writing centres.
“When I decided to write professionally, I surrounded myself with those in the industry who I knew would make sure that I dug deep and wrote the truth of my life,” she has said.
Maggie Walters received mentorship from established Australian writers, including Lee Kofman, Alan Close, Laurel Cohn and Sarah Armstrong. These mentors and writing circles helped Walters refine her voice and structure her first manuscript. She later explained that the support she received from these groups was crucial to her creative development.
Her memoir, Split (2024), was released on May 16, 2024. The book examines her life with Multiple Personality Disorder, tracing its origins in childhood trauma and its influence on her adult identity. Walters introduces the voices of her alters within the text, offering a direct view of their role in survival and healing. She opens the memoir with the words, “I exist in an unsettled life.” The book includes sections with trigger warnings, but is described as ultimately a story of resilience and hope.
Hazel Lam designed the cover of Split, noted for work on Julia Baird’s Phosphorescence and Holly Ringland’s The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. Walters chose to self-publish, citing the greater control, quicker release and retention of rights that this approach provided. She has noted that self-publishing also allowed her to integrate her writing into her planned advocacy work on mental health.
Walters has described herself as a high-functioning multiple with fewer than 40 alters, most of whom are no longer active in daily life. “What this means is that you would never know I was multiple unless I told you,” she explained.
By writing her memoir, Maggie Walters acknowledges her trauma and celebrates the joy of raising children.
Photo credit: www.maggie-walters.com
Maggie Walters was born in the United States and completed a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management at Le Tourneau University. She moved to Australia in 1996 after meeting her husband online and settled in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. Walters has described her daily life there as one spent writing, raising her three children and enjoying coffee with friends.
Her professional career before writing included work in marketing and community relations. She returned to writing after many years, motivated by her enduring interest in storytelling. She joined writing groups and attended courses at the Byron Writers Festival and other writing centres.
“When I decided to write professionally, I surrounded myself with those in the industry who I knew would make sure that I dug deep and wrote the truth of my life,” she has said.
Maggie Walters received mentorship from established Australian writers, including Lee Kofman, Alan Close, Laurel Cohn and Sarah Armstrong. These mentors and writing circles helped Walters refine her voice and structure her first manuscript. She later explained that the support she received from these groups was crucial to her creative development.
Her memoir, Split (2024), was released on May 16, 2024. The book examines her life with Multiple Personality Disorder, tracing its origins in childhood trauma and its influence on her adult identity. Walters introduces the voices of her alters within the text, offering a direct view of their role in survival and healing. She opens the memoir with the words, “I exist in an unsettled life.” The book includes sections with trigger warnings, but is described as ultimately a story of resilience and hope.
Hazel Lam designed the cover of Split, noted for work on Julia Baird’s Phosphorescence and Holly Ringland’s The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. Walters chose to self-publish, citing the greater control, quicker release and retention of rights that this approach provided. She has noted that self-publishing also allowed her to integrate her writing into her planned advocacy work on mental health.
Walters has described herself as a high-functioning multiple with fewer than 40 alters, most of whom are no longer active in daily life. “What this means is that you would never know I was multiple unless I told you,” she explained.
By writing her memoir, Maggie Walters acknowledges her trauma and celebrates the joy of raising children.
Photo credit: www.maggie-walters.com
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